Director – Biotech Strategy Lead

🔥 13 hours ago

🇨🇳 China – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧐 Strategy

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ICON plc

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

ICON plc is a global provider of clinical, consulting, and commercial services across various sectors in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. They offer a wide range of clinical solutions, including decentralised clinical trials, cardiac safety solutions, early clinical laboratories, and medical imaging. ICON also provides technology solutions that support drug development from early phases to post-marketing. Their therapeutic expertise spans cardiovascular, oncology, internal medicine, and more, with a strong focus on transformative therapies like cell and gene therapies and biosimilars. ICON is recognized as a leading Contract Research Organisation (CRO), regularly providing thought leadership and contributing to industry publications and events. Their services are tailored to optimize clinical trials, offer regulatory intelligence, and deliver real-world evidence through robust data analysis and patient-centric solutions.

📋 Description

• Shape differentiated clinical development and operational strategies for biotechnology opportunities. • Serve as a strategic advisor to clients and internal stakeholders. • Support opportunity assessments, capability presentations, proposal strategy, bid defenses, and senior-level client engagements. • Lead the strategic development of proposals and solutions across Business Development, Operations, Finance, Medical, Scientific, and therapeutic area teams. • Build trusted relationships with biotechnology clients and identify opportunities to expand partnerships and portfolios. • Provide strategic oversight from solution development through execution, evaluating operational feasibility, financial assumptions, risks, KPIs, KRIs, quality indicators, and performance data. • Bring therapeutic area and drug development expertise to business strategy. • Strengthen ICON's market positioning and capabilities through cross-functional collaboration, continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and thought leadership activities.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Business Administration, or a related discipline; a scientific or biological sciences background is highly valued. • Approximately 9 or more years of experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CRO, clinical research, or drug development environment. • Strong knowledge of clinical development and trial operations. • Demonstrated experience supporting business development activities, including proposal strategy, opportunity assessment, client presentations, bid defenses, and development of client-focused solutions. • Strong understanding of the biotechnology drug development environment. • Therapeutic area expertise and hands-on clinical or operational study execution experience highly valued. • Proven ability to develop strategic, operational, and commercially viable solutions, including assessment of financial assumptions, delivery models, business risks, performance metrics, and operational feasibility. • Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders within a global, matrixed organization without relying on direct reporting-line authority. • Executive-level communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-management skills. • Strong business acumen, analytical thinking, sound judgment, and ability to translate scientific, clinical, operational, and commercial considerations into practical strategies and solutions. • Live in Beijing and able to travel approximately 25% based on business and client needs. • Legal right to work in the country where the role is based.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and performance related incentives • Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable • Retirement and pension plans • Life assurance and disability coverage • Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources • Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

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